Baby Raccoon

After the Stadium of Fire the awesome Edwards family met us at the Marriott in Salt Lake where everyone but Zachy and I enjoyed the plush feather beds of the Marriott. Z thought it would be a better idea for he and I to sleep on the floor. My back still hurts thinking about it. It was 1 am and he kept telling me to sing. I would start to sing and drift off to sleep and he would yell at me to sing some more. Ugh. It was a long night.

On Sat. morning the kids just had to swim in the beautiful outdoor pool. Zachy loves water but is terrified of swimming pools so we wandered around while Mark and Don watched the kids swim.

We then walked downtown to the Gateway mall. That it was about 90 degrees at 10 am should have tipped us off to staying indoors. The Gateway is a beautiful outdoor mall in Salt Lake but dang it was hot! We all took the kids to Wall-E in a nice air conditioned theater. Zachy isn't a good traveler anyway but he was tired on Sat. so the loud theater scared him to death. I ended up at a stupid arcade with him for most of the time. We also rode the escalator quite a few times too. Yee haw. The allure of the escalator left me about 20 years ago. When the movie was over the Ed's parted ways with us and we decided to look around. That was cut short when we almost died from heat stroke. (Zane would think we were wimps, he is on a bike everyday in the 115 degree Arizona heat)It could have been a fun afternoon but cranky Z+ lots of heat= grumpy parents! We headed for home after that getting an ice cream at DQ on the way.

Sunday I ran up to SV for our big Erickson reunion. (1 of 2) It was fun to see people but I didn't realize that most everyone was getting ready to go. In hindsight it was a long trip that I probably wouldn't have made if I would have known it was about over. That being said, the kids had a blast getting dirty in the forest (Kadon looked like a baby raccoon) and then had fun playing outside at my parents house. Star Valley is so beautiful this time of year. I just soaked it up.

Brynn went to a school camp this week about an hour from here. We have missed her a bunch. I went up for parents night last night and she ran to hug me when I got there. She had tears in her eyes and said she wanted to come home. I would have let her even though they were doing fun things last night and today but her buddies talked her into staying. She was having lots of fun but was just a little homesick. She gets home today and I will be so happy to have all of my kiddos together.

Hope your week is going well!